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ST LOUIS (USA), Aug 3: Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with nemesis Hikaru Nakamura of the United States to kickstart his campaign in the Sinquefield Cup, a part of the Grand Chess tour.Among the chess elite, Nakamura has ...The Assam Tribune, 1 week ago

IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand in action. Photograph: Kind Courtesy, Spectrum Studios/Grand Chess Tour Former World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a disappointing final round loss against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to finish joint eighth in the St Louis Rapid Chess tournament in St Louis, on Thursday. After raising visions of a good finish, luck did not favour Grandmaster Anand much on the final day as he was first held to a draw by Le Quang Leim of Vietnam in the seventh round and then ...

Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player ever, returns to competitive chess after 12 years. Chess fans hurtled back in time as two legends of the sport -- Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov -- came up against each other in the St Louis Rapid and Blitz chess tournament, a part of the Grand Chess Tour in St Louis, United States, on Tuesday, Auvgust 15. Anand was unable to get the better of Kasparov who made a comeback to competitive chess after 12 years. The sixth round clash ended in a ...

IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand in action. Photograph: Grand Chess Tour/Twitter Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand finished joint second after playing out a draw with Wesley So of United States in the Sinquefield Cup, which concluded in St Louis, USA. Finishing with a tally of 5.5 points out of a possible nine, Anand also gained some valuable rating points to inch closer to the 2800 rating mark. With seven draws and two victories, Anand has moved to seventh place in the world ranking. Maxime ...

Anand draws with Vachier-Lagrave; remains in joint lead IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand. Photograph: PTI. Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France to remain in joint lead after the end of the eighth and penultimate round of Sinquefield Cup, a part of the Grand Chess tour. Anand played his last white game in the tournament against Vachier-Lagrave and had a small advantage but the Frenchman was quite up to the task in defense and steered the ...

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand remained in contention for a top spot after playing out his fourth successive draw in the Sinquefield Chess tournament, in St Louis, USA, on Sunday. Armenian Levon Aronian has had mixed results with Anand but the Indian has troubled his opponent a great deal in the past few years. For Anand, the fourth draw serves him good as the Indian ace has not really been in great form in super events off late. With two points from four games, one win is what ...

Viswanathan Anand drew with tournament leader Levon Aronian of Armenia in the eighth and penultimate round to stay in sixth position at the Altibox Norway chess tournament in Stavanger, Norway.Having done the hard work, Aronian was in no mood to spoil things as white and the Armenian remained cautious while slightly better at some point.World champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway regained his exposure and outwitted his last World championship challenger Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the big news of ...

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand beat Fabiano Caruana of United States on Tuesday in the sixth round to register his first win of the Altibox Norway chess tournament. Having lost two and drawn three, Anand was under pressure to find back his winning ...

Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered an early jolt, losing to his former challenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the second round of Altibox Norway chess tournament in Stavanger, Norway.It turned out to be a bad day for Anand, who earlier uncorked an interesting idea with his white pieces. However, the Indian missed the thread of the position at a crucial juncture and went down in the ensuing endgame.Like in the first round, the second round too had just one decisive game and ...